Ernesto Miranda

Outline

This study is divided into the following sections:

Introduction: This section gives a brief biographical information about Ernesto Miranda

How Miranda Became Popular: This section narrates the incidents which made Mirinda popular

Discussion : This section explains a case which involved Ernesto Mirinda and made him popular in the U.S.

(a) The Trial of Ernesto Miranda: This section explains the trial of Ernesto Miranda.

(b) Completion of the Case: This section highlights the Mirinda case in detail.

(c) Review of the Case: This section explains Miranda's appeal to the court for a judicial review of the case.

Conclusion: This section concludes the paper and sheds light on the last days of Ernesto Mirinda.

Ernesto Miranda

Introduction

Ernesto Miranda was a very poor 23-year-old immigrant from Mexico. He had a very long criminal background consisting of assault, burglary, and attempted rape. Miranda had served 3 years in jail previously for the attempted rape charges. He also had a juvenile background of assault and burglary. After his mother died, most of his childhood consisted of moving around from children's homes and getting into more trouble. As an adult, being a 9th grade dropout caused him to deal with minimum wage jobs and poor households.

How Miranda Became Popular

In the late hours of March 3, 1963, in Phoenix, Arizona, a mildly retarded 18-year old girl got off of the bus from work and started to walk home. That night, the girl was about to pass a man as he grabbed her, dragged her into his car, and drove away to the desert. Once they got to the desert, the man raped the 18-year old and then took the 8 dollars she had in her purse.(Alphedus, 1983)

The young girl now had to face all of the questioning from the police. She told him her attacker was in his late 20's, a little less than 6 feet tall, about 175 lbs, Mexican, skinny, had a mustache and short black curly hair. She wasn't able to give exact details about the car that the man drove, except that it was green and may have been a Chevy or Ford. She did clearly remember a piece of rope hanging from the back of the front seat to grab on to. One day a brother-in-law picked the girl up from the bus stop when he noticed a green Packard driving up and down the street. The girl mentioned that the car looked a lot like the attackers car, so he took the license plate number and gave it to the police. The car belonged to a woman with a Mexican boyfriend. The detectives, Carroll Cooley and Wilfred Young, ended up at the home of Ernesto Miranda and his girlfriend, Twila Hoffman. The officers arrested Miranda, and took him back him to the police station. Once they got there, they put him into a line up with other Mexicans from the jail that fit his description, and brought in the rape victim. She thought the first one, who was Miranda, looked most like her attacker, so she asked ...